'Little' — named from Lot's own plea, mid-apocalypse: 'is it not a little one (mits'ar)?' (19:20-22). A landmark fixing the plain's southern extent at its first mention (13:10), it alone of the plain's cities is spared, at Lot's asking — the destruction literally waits until he arrives (19:22). Then Lot, afraid of the town he begged for, leaves it for a cave in the hills (19:30).
📍 Zoar — modern-day Near Ghor es-Safi, Jordan, southeast of the Dead Sea
🗺️ No ancient-world overlay on the shelf yet for this site — a period map
showing how the region actually looked in the biblical world gets added here as Mr. Librarian curates one,
the same way the encyclopedia's film shelf grows.
Sodom burned—Zoar did NOT: the full story of the discovery of the Cities of the Plain